RE: joke time
February 4, 2016 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2016 at 3:41 pm by Cyberman.)
We had a serious, gritty police drama in the eighties called "Rockcliffe's Babies", in which the guy playing the boss of titular DS Rockcliffe had Jonathan Ross Syndrome; ie, he had trouble getting his tongue around his Rs. Given the name of the detective he needed to chew out, we're already into comedic territory (even if he wouldn't say so himself); and I am convinced the scriptwriters had a bet among themselves as to who could make the poor guy's life a bigger nightmare. What elevated it into pure gold, though, was a scene in which the case du jour had taken a disturbing twist:
Inspector: "Hold it, Wockcliffe, we've got a new pwoblem. It's dwugs."
Rockcliffe: "Drugs, sir?"
Inspector: "Yes. (long, dramatic pause) Cwack."
Inspector: "Hold it, Wockcliffe, we've got a new pwoblem. It's dwugs."
Rockcliffe: "Drugs, sir?"
Inspector: "Yes. (long, dramatic pause) Cwack."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'